Florida Medicare

This guide covers Medicare Advantage health care plans offered in Broward and Palm Beach counties. They are sold by private insurers with Medicare’s approval. Most offer prescription coverage as well as cover doctor’s visits, screenings and other medical costs. Drug co-pays in this guide are based...More

This guide covers stand-alone Part D prescription plans offered in Broward and Palm Beach counties. They are sold by private insurers with Medicare’s approval. Drug co-pays in this guide are based on a 30-day supply at an in-network retail pharmacy. Some plans have preferred and standard pharmacies,...

Senior and disabled Floridians shopping for privately run Medicare health care and prescription coverage probably won't find many big changes between this year and 2015. But there are some subtle differences – some which will benefit consumers.

You'll enter the "doughnut hole," or the coverage gap during which you must pay a higher percentage of your drug costs, later – unlike the current plan year, when you came up against the gap sooner than in 2013. You hit the gap in 2014 plans when your deductible, co-pays and pay-outs by your plan...